Juan fernandez navarrete biography of william

Spanish artist (1526–1579)

Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526 – 28 March 1579), or "de Navarrete", called El Mudo (The Mute), was a Spanish Mannerist painter, born at Logroño.

Biography

An illness in infancy deprived Navarrete of his hearing, which affected his ability to learn to speak. At a very early age he began to express his wants by sketching objects with a piece of charcoal.

Juan fernandez navarrete biography of william

He received his first instructions in art from Fray Vicente de Santo Domingo, a Hieronymite monk at Estella, and also with Gaspar Becerra. He visited Naples, Rome, Florence and Milan.Pellegrino Tibaldi met him in Rome in 1550.

According to most accounts he was for a considerable time the pupil and assistant of Titian at Venice. In 1568 Philip II of Spain summoned him to Madrid with the title of king's painter and a salary, and employed him to execute pictures for the Escorial.

During the 1560s and 1570s the huge monastery-palace of El Escorial was still under